1391269 - Combine individual TAAR modules' recommendations based on confidence

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1400187

(Data Platform and Tools :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[mlopatka]

The current execution of the TAAR recommendation driver selects a recommendation strategy based on available user information. Specific availability of fields I.e. other installed addons, Legacy addons installed, telemetry info in our H-base instance determine which of the recommender systems provide the recommendations.

However it is possible to combine the different sources of information by allow each module to contribute a set of recommended addons and accompanying "confidence" of the output. This would allow a reweighting of a finalized recommendation list that integrates more information into the final list that any individual recommender module has access to.

In order to ensure comparable confidence values on recomendations, each module would have to normalize its own confidence score based on the the range and probability density of such a confidence value being produced.

Additionally, the recommendations passed to RecommendationManager would have to include an ordered list of confidence; or provide a list of tuples including confidence per guid in its output.

Comment 1

[Mark Reid [:mreid]]

Martin, are you planning to work on this in Q4?

Comment 2

[mlopatka]

yes, please leave it open.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Moved to new component, per bug 1425844.